Coming to MUBI this Sunday, July 18:
PLAYING MEN
Director:
Matjaž Ivanišin
World Premiere:
FIDM 2017
Select Festivals:
Sarajevo, Rotterdam, ZagrebDox, True/False, Docs Against Gravity, Indielisboa, Milwaukee, Documentamadrid
About:
A travelogue/essay film examining Mediterranean masculinity and games.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Hulu today, Friday, July 16:
MCCARTNEY 3,2,1
Director:
Zachary Heinzerling
World Premiere:
Hulu (July 2021)
About:
An intimate, six-part series featuring Paul McCartney in conversation with legendary producer Rick Rubin.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, July 16:
NO ORDINARY MAN
Director:
Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
World Premiere:
Toronto 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, AFI Fest, Inside Out, Calgary, Translations, Vancouver, RIDM, Atlantic, NewFest, Sofia, Sydney Mardi Gras, BFI Flare, Salem, Cleveland
About:
The legacy of musician Billy Tipton is brought to life by a diverse group of contemporary trans artists.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
For decades, the life of American jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the sensationalistic story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. Now that history gets re-interrogated by trans artists as they try to reimagine Tipton’s life through acts of performance, reclaiming him as a trans icon. Filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt join Tipton’s adopted son to reckon with Tipton’s complicated and contested legacy.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres and virtual cinemas tomorrow, Friday, July 16:
CAN YOU BRING IT: BILL T JONES AND D-MAN IN THE WATERS
Director:
Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2020
Select Festivals:
Frameline, Vancouver, Milwaukee, SF Dance, Outshine Miami
About:
The story behind Bill T Jones and Arnie Zane’s titular performance piece on the devastation of AIDS.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
Beginning in 1980s New York City, this film chronicles the love story between dancers Bill T Jones and Arnie Zane, the diverse dance company they founded, and the painful devastation of AIDS on the arts community, as told through the company’s signature performance piece D-Man in the Waters. Following a millennial dance troupe’s efforts to re-interpret the piece for their generation, directors Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz offer an engrossing examination of dance, love, and loss—and the power of art to move through pain.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, July 16:
ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Director:
Morgan Neville
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, AFI Docs
About:
A remarkably constructed portrait of the uncommon life and untimely death of the late storyteller, explorer, and chef.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, July 16:
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
Director:
Jörg Adolph
World Premiere:
German theatrical (January 2020)
Select Festivals:
Berlin, Bergen, Docville, Barcelona, Vancouver
About:
An immersive and eye-opening look at the scientific mechanisms behind forests.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Film Movement+ this Friday, July 16:
HANDS OF GOD
Director:
Riccardo Romani
World Premiere:
Taormina 2018
About:
A profile of members of the Iraqi National Boxing Team, who endured years of war as they set out to qualify for the Olympics.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD this Friday, July 16:
THE LONELIEST WHALE: THE SEARCH FOR 52
Director:
Joshua Zeman
World Premiere:
Nantucket 2021
Select Festivals:
Boulder
About:
In this fascinating story about isolation and interconnection, the filmmaker and a team of intrepid scientists set out on a wild quest to find the 52 Hertz Whale, which has spent its entire life calling out at a frequency that is different from any other whale.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to the Metrograph’s virtual cinema tomorrow, Thursday, July 15:
BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER
Director:
Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
World Premiere:
West German TV (November 1984)
About:
A look at Nicaragua’s Miskito people as they use child soldiers to combat their former allies, the Sandinistas, in 1984.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, July 14:
PRIVATE NETWORK: WHO KILLED MANUEL BUENDÍA?
Director:
Manuel Alcalá
World Premiere:
Netflix (July 2021)
About:
An investigation into the dangerous work and murder of renowned Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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